Why does mysql process starts on boot?

Question

As you can see, mysql exists only in the /etc/init.d directory and not in /etc/rcN.d, therefore it shouldn't start on boot.

$ sudo find /etc -regex ".*\(rc.*d\|init\.d\).*" | sudo grep "mysql" | sort
/etc/init.d/mysql

txwikinger · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-06 21:54:45Z

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MySQL is started by upstart. You can find the configuration file at /etc/init/mysql.conf

edited Nov 6 '10 at 21:54

answered Nov 6 '10 at 21:36

txwikinger
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	Thanks. I've edit that file and replaced the line ` and runlevel [2345])` with ` and runlevel [345])`. – Dor Nov 6 '10 at 22:09
	You can also be more clear and say 'start on never' – SpamapS Nov 9 '10 at 6:06
	New versions of Ubuntu use upstart(upstart.ubuntu.com) to manage service (start/stop/restart etc). It's a good system but I'm unable to disable a service to start on Ubuntu startup. I think that edit the configuration file as advised by txwikinger isn't a good method, so how to proceed? – neuromancer Nov 9 '10 at 9:34
	Unfortunately, currently this might be the only method. Maybe we need some better way to allow packaged configuration being mixed with local additions for upstart. – txwikinger Nov 10 '10 at 0:32

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